Class out of control? Will no regular substitute dare enter the fourth-grade classroom? It's time to press the red button under the office clock to summon Miss Subway, the substitute of last resort. This sub has the right gadgets in her canvas bag to put the fourth-graders back in order.

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Etc.

Here’s three handy letters,
E...T...C and a dot.
Stick them in your story.
They’ll think you know a lot, etc.

"I challenge you to become the youngest person in history to travel around the world alone, using only surface transportation, and do it in under forty days."

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Two Fingers

Grandpa says they mean victory.
“It’s the peace sign,” my mother said.
But at school they’re called Bunny Ears,
When we hold them behind a head.
Teachers raise them to mean ‘quiet’.
Scouts raise them when their oath’s begun.
But we just raise those Bunny Ears,
When we want to have some fun.
🎼Here's the song Bunny Ears (video) Listen and watch
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Sand Sandwich
I bit it.
I spit grit.

🎼Here's the song Sand Sandwich the shortest song ever Listen

Two Too Many To's
There are two too many two/too/to's.
That’s two too many two/too/to's to choose.
Webster made them just to confuse.
Two two/too/to's it’s time to lose.
Tootle-loo.
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Tom & Mom on Arctic Ark's Flight Deck

The Snots are better than you and me. They are better than snoots and snobs.
Snots are so superior to any of us, they are in a league of their own, and that’s far out of our league.

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"A fable about finding your bliss."
Our teacher, age ten, rescues a sea lion who tells him about the magical Thinking Cap, a hat, when worn, reveals a person’s innermost desire.
In pursuit of the cap, our teacher travels around the world, and in the meantime discovers his calling, his true purpose, what he was meant to do with his life.

 Writer's Workshop
Our writer's workshop follows math.
We write and work nonstop.
But writer's workshop doesn't mean,
We ever get to shop.

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Captain Claus
A-ho-ho-hoy!

U
No matter how much thinking I do,
There is no word that ends with U.
U starts many words we use,
It always trails after Q’s.
Side by side makes a W.
And that letter ends quite a few.
But who knows a word that ends in U.
Do you?

Captain John Paul Jellyfish and his fleet have sailed across the Atlantic. The captain doesn’t like what he finds. Follow the valorous adventures of the bravest jellyfish to ever sail the Seven Seas. His fleet’s challenge? To rid the Eastern seaboard of the pesky Portuguese men-of-war and make the beaches safe again for summer swimming.

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Ĕ
Of all I learned about in school,
The most useful thing I found,
Was not a law or property,
But the simple short ĕ sound.

Class out of control? Will no regular substitute dare enter the fourth-grade classroom? It's time to press the red button under the office clock to summon Miss Subway, the substitute of last resort. This sub has the right gadgets in her canvas bag to put the fourth-graders back in order.

The Thinking Cap is gone!
The rousing sequel to Apple Island, or the Truth About Teachers!

The Thinking Cap has been stolen, and Bradley Zimmerman, by request from the Gods of Education on Mount Academy, must take another long and perilous journey to try and retrieve it. Not only that, he must first rescue his class (again) from Flunk, God of Failure and Lord of the Underschool!